The main boutique
space where customers are welcomed. The space is welcoming and has the ambience
of an elegant and informal exhibition space with cosy armchairs where you sit
and talk with the staff. The interior is made in pact with the old building, in
beautiful high quality materials. Nofaux surfaces as is often the case in watch stores.

One of my
favorite things about this Boutique, is the spaces are flooded with natural
daylight. As the windows are facing east and north, you get a soft reflected
light that is optimal for viewing the watches. Textures and colors can be seen
as they really are.

Mr Journe
designed the exhibition vitrines.

Upstairs is
a bar that is useful for hosting events, exhibitions as well as serving
customers who prefer a private setting.

A large
etched glass lighting up the bar with the Resonance movement.

The next
room is the lounge. A living room type of space. It is elegant and again,
informal. What I like about the structure and the ambience of the Boutique is
that you could almost live there. It has a feeling of a home, which makes it
very pleasant and welcoming.

The view
from the first floor. Rue Faubourg St Honore. Located only 50 meters from the
LÉlysee Palace, the official recidence of the French President.We are talking about an extremely well-guarded
area with lots of police and security on the street.

Wall clock décor. An Octa reserve de Marche.

The well
connected spaces are brilliant for hosting events and exhibitions.

I hope you
enjoyed the small virtual tour.

I asked Mr.
Pouedras, Director for France if we could see some boutique pieces since the
boutique was the theme of this post.

Just before
my visit, we had a forum post discussing Boutique Editions and Black Label pieces. Therefore,
I also asked him to explain how these collections are limited. Here is his explanation:

Boutique Editions are made with rose gold cases and black dial. These
can only be purchased at the FPJ boutiques. There is not an official cap on how
many of these can be produced but in reality, these are quite rare. This
collection was discontinued at the beginning of 2019.

Collection Nacre are made with rose gold or platinum cases and
a dial that is partially made of cut mother of pearl. These can only be purchased
at the FPJ boutiques. This collection was also discontinued at the beginning of
2019.

Black Label are platinum cases with black dial. To buy
these you have to already be a FPJ costumer. The production cap on these areA">: 2 pieces of each model can be ordered pr year at
each bouique. Since there are 9 boutiques there could theoretically be 18
pieces of this model pr year. I was told that this is only in theory. In
reality there are much, much less of each. I was also told that they are quite
transparent about the numbers if you are an owner of these. You are welcome to
contact a boutique and ask them the number produced your for your model, and
they could find out for you.

Now, let’s
see some watches.

Octa
Automatique Lune - Black Label 40 mm.

The wristshot in daylight. The black dial and the uncoated glass makes it super reflective and hard to difficult to photograph.

Notice the narrow bezel

A picture together
with a Chronometre Optimum for comparison

Chronometre
Souverain Collection Nacre

This piece
I find very appealing. The Blue print with the “Bombé” effect on top of the
mother of pearl, which has a kind of transparency to the surface, really sings
when you see it up close.

The MOP
catches the daylight and changes from almost white to magnificent hues of blue.
I have to say I was quite smitten with this piece.

Centigraphe
Souveraine Black Label

What a
beauty. I sometimes find the contrast of BL too hard, but on this dial, it
works really well, to my eyes. The black somehow matches the sport theme of a
chronograph well. A small drawback can be that the silver hands, at certain
angles, could be difficult to read at an instant when they are over the
subdials.

Notice the
very large crown.Next to it, “rocker”
switch that operates the chronograph.

On the
wrist, overlooking Rue Faubourg St Honore. It makes me feel on top of the
world.

Thank you
so much to the entire wonderful staff at the FP Journe Boutique in Paris letting
us visit you.

Last week I had to drop off a watch for service at the newly renovated Boutique, so I grabbed this opportunity take some pictures to show you the place and a few watches. (Perhaps You have already seen th e my post from a former visit. If you missed it, h...

Now I can see why you mention photography as one of your passions! My only qualm with FR Journe and it is the only one is that I wish they had continued to make 38mm watches. Yes I know for some unknown reason, they did not sell many 38mm watches but I th...

My wrist is larger than average but a 38 mm works very well. For some model I prefer 40. The Chronometre Bleu is 39 - it always looks great on almost everyone wishes that FPJ would go back to the old 38/40 sizes. In my eyes I was a perfect constellation.

Because a very elegant, French couple came in just as I had shot the Nacre and bought it. Especially the centigraphe - I cant believe it hasn’t been picked it up yet. Thank you, my all time favorite Druid. So glad to have you around.

Well, I’ll take the rest. By the way, I figured out why I didn’t find the Boutique when I was in Paris in April. The Elysee Palace (I had no idea that was what it was) was blocked off from pedestrians. From your photo I can see the Boutique was on the oth...

The black dial, and it’s a big dial, really takes the eye away from the gold case. It’s in no way blingy or in your face. You really need to see one on your wrist, which might not be so easy unfortunately.